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in spite of everything, no matter how challenging it was to get up in the morning, I made it into work every day last month, on time ( Read more... )

I have a picture of the tree taken, but haven't gotten it off of the camera yet ( Read more... )

I haven't taken pictures yet, but that's on the agenda for tonight. we now have a bare spot of dirt at the top of the hill. I'm actually kind of glad now that I took those nice pictures of the house in the light/late March snow. the bushes really could be pretty when lightly covered with snow. this would be opposed to the more normal appearance of ( Read more... )

it was a good weekend. Saturday, we got pictures taken that we will not be sharing with everyone at Christmas because professional photography is freaking expensive. wow ( Read more... )

David and I went to Brazil on Sunday.

for dinner, we prepared Molded Steamed Chicken, Cornmeal And Vegetables ( or Cuscuz De Galinha), and dessert was Pumpkin Pudding (or Pudim De Abobora)I think it would have been fun to make a soup, too, but what we had proved to be plenty as it was. we cut the chicken meal recipe in half, and still have many ( Read more... )

it was a lovely weekend. tiring, of course, as conventions are. even staying at the Iowa House and getting to bed at a decent hour on Saturday didn't completely alleviate the fact that the Sunday morning slot for Jedi in the Vineyard started at freaking 8:00 AM. 8:00?? on the Sunday of a convention? yeesh.

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it was, as some have already noted, a gorgeous weekend in our little slice of the midwest. the first weekend in November, and I was outside in a t-shirt with no jacket, and David was talking about wearing shorts. he didn't actually wear shorts, because it was still cold inside the house. but the sun was warm, and goodness, church was downright hot ( Read more... )

I am home from work today, for no particular reason ( Read more... )

another thing we did this weekend was volunteer at QCGA on Saturday morning. they have a bunch of new dogs, and I completely fell for Berg. Berg is a bounce, due to health issues with his owner, originally adopted directly from the track in Dubuque. he's gotta be pretty unhappy and confused to be back in a kennel again ( Read more... )